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Donald Trump’s cold, hard political calculation (opinion)

Jacque Colbert by Jacque Colbert
May 8, 2020
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From the second the coronavirus surfaced on this nation, it was clear that it may precise a brutal toll of illness and loss of life and that, absent a vaccine or therapies, managing it will require Individuals to make wrenching sacrifices on an enormous scale.

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To rally the nation to do what was wanted in response would require our leaders to inform us laborious truths and demand painful steps — actions which can be about as pure to politicians as pants are to a giraffe.

When the horrendous financial influence got here, and leaders had to select between these laborious truths and pandering, you knew the weak would minimize and run.

Till he did not.

Issues obtained robust, as they predictably would. And the president has minimize from his scientists and well being specialists and run, even suppressing advice from the US Centers for Disease Control about how to safely re-open communities, placing the onus on governors and mayors to grapple with the deadliest international pandemic in a century.

Extra involved about surviving the autumn election than he’s the survival of his residents, the president has leaped on his trusty steed Resentment and hopes to journey that previous nag to victory in November, as he has earlier than.

Sure, Trump is true when he says that the financial price of working to carry the virus underneath management has already been catastrophic. Tens of thousands and thousands of Individuals have misplaced their jobs or companies virtually in a single day. Persons are determined to get again to work and normality.

However this race to reopen concept he’s fanning is based on his politics, not solicitude for the struggling and definitely not on the science. The well being specialists — even his personal — could not be clearer: open the nation prematurely and carelessly, and we threat being proper again the place we have been in March, with sharply rising infections and deaths that threaten to overwhelm our well being care system.

If we go there, the financial system must shut down yet again or will merely collapse.

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The president has made a chilly, laborious political calculation and determined to take the trail of egocentric expedience. He’ll be on the facet of opening in any respect prices. Play his favourite red-state-versus-blue-state card. Blame the docs for being overly cautious and the Democrats for prizing science over American jobs. Pressure the governors to make the robust, agonizing choices and make them stroll the plank. Use China as a defend towards his personal inexcusable failure to behave earlier.

As an alternative of unifying the nation, Trump is hoping to pry open and deepen the divides which have been so central to his political venture. Already you possibly can see the polarizing impact — in polling, on social media and Fox Information. Whereas most Individuals nonetheless favor a cautious method, the acquainted fault traces are starting to kind.

A accountable chief would have behaved in a different way; would have adopted the science and advised the nation that quitting the distasteful prescription mid-course would solely extend the distress.

In 1942, when the allies received a decisive, hard-fought victory over the Nazis in North Africa, Winston Churchill tempered the welcome excellent news with this caution:
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“Now this isn’t the tip. It isn’t even the start of the tip. However it’s, maybe, the tip of the start.”

That’s the place we’re within the battle towards Covid-19. That’s what an sincere, brave chief would inform us now, as a lot of our governors and mayors have.

However if you happen to have been anticipating some steely, Churchillian second of management from this President, you have not been paying consideration. Trump is about Trump, first, final and at all times.

He’s what he’s, which is gloomy for our badly wounded nation on this second of excruciating trial.

— to www.cnn.com

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